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abcIndependents’ Day: GOP has high expectations, but indie energy may rule
November 03, 2009 8:15 AM
Klein_3ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:
In the push-pull between Democrats and Republicans, it's a day for none of the above.
On an Election Day that will provide limited data -- and that the GOP looks likely to celebrate, while Democrats tell us to look elsewhere -- there's a surfeit of evidence that independents are the powerbrokers of American politics.
A third-party candidate may win a congressional seat in upstate New York. Another might swing a governor's race in New Jersey.
Virginia appears poised to elect a Republican governor who's reached for the same middle President Obama counted on last year.
And in New York City, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent stands to win an unprecedented third term, mostly by being a good mayor (and who could spend more money than everyone else combined bragging about his lack of ideology).
2009's races could bring a clean GOP sweep. But it's being fueled by indie energy that's as unaligned as it is unwieldy and unfocused................
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